Pair headed for deportation set free on interstate

Johnson City Press ^ | September 5, 2008 | Jim Wozniak

[don-o]

ERWIN — Two Hispanic men on their way to Knoxville as part of the deportation process were released Tuesday before they arrived, Unicoi County authorities said Thursday. County Jailer Rita Williams said superiors of two Immigration and Customs Enforcement employees ordered Gregorio Estala Rodriguez and Primitivo Estala Rodriguez to be let go because the New Orleans office, where the men eventually were headed, had been closed temporarily due to Hurricane Gustav.

“It’s frustrating for us to know that we got illegal aliens that are breaking the law,” Sheriff Kent Harris said Thursday. “That’s a group we don’t want to have here. “I felt like when they left the jail here that there would be at least some justice because they were going to be deported back to their country. There’s a legal way to get here. That’s what they need to do is come legally.” Gregorio Rodriguez, 32, who was living in Erwin, pleaded guilty Aug. 28 in Unicoi County Sessions Court to possession of schedule II drugs, possession of a weapon and violation of the open container law. Primitivo Rodriguez, 21, who also was living here, pleaded guilty to having no insurance and no license. The men were released on their county charges on time served, but Harris said they were held until Tuesday, when ICE representatives came to get them. Williams said the men and the ICE agents were on Interstate 81 heading to Knoxville when they called the jail. “They called back and said that their boss said to turn them loose because where they’re having the hurricanes in Louisiana;“They said because of the hurricanes and stuff to let them go because they had no place to put them at Louisiana.” She said the agents released the two men on the interstate.

[don-o]

Catch and release.

Just damn

[JRandomFreeper]

Ought to be able to tag 'em for later pickup at least.

/johnny

[Red Badger]

“It’s frustrating for us to know that we got illegal aliens that are breaking the law,” Sheriff Kent Harris said Thursday

How did this guy get elected?.............

[don-o]

It’s on ICE. Not the sheriff. READ THE ARTICLE!!

[Paladin2]

WTF? The PO claims to not let the weather stop them, but LE does?

[Red Badger]

I was commenting on the fact that the sheriff was using “illegal” and “breaking the law” in the same sentence. The fact that they are illegally here in the first place means that they have no qualms about breaking our other laws.............

[killermedic]

Maybe that new I.D. chip that is being solicited throughout government as a way to track Americans can be put to better use if implanted on illegal aliens or just aliens here with worker visas, student visas, etc so that when they overstay we can find them alot easier. These two would have been a perfect experiment and if others don’t want it done to them they can stay home and away from the U.S.

[jocko12]

Another big waste of my tax paying money.

[doc]

Another Bush “get tough” policy on illegal immigration!! Just think when Obama or McAmnesty get elected the millions of third world law breakers will be put on a fast track to amnesty and citizenship.

[Congressman Billybob]

Holy Sh*t. Whatever supervisor ordered this insanity should be fired as fast as the paperwork can be processed.

Congressman Billybob

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[rabscuttle385]

Pair headed for deportation set free on interstate

Welcome to Juan's & Obambi's America.

Nice to know that there are law-breaking criminals set loose on Interstate 81 near Knoxville by the criminal enterprise known as Big Government.

[don-o]

Whatever. Harris happens to be a great LEO. Sorry if his grammar and syntax does not meet your expectations.

He catches bad guys real good!

[applpie]

why not let them take the place of the two border agents who are rotting in jail because none of our current elected officials has a backbone.

[SWEETSUNNYSOUTH]

My Va. State Trooper son-in-law caught a van with 13 illegals, or at least they had no ID, and was told to let them go by the INS.

Amazing!!!

[gubamyster]

ping

[Regulator]

Whatever supervisor ordered this insanity should be fired as fast as the paperwork can be processed

Hah. This is SOP, BB.

Welcome to our nightmare. This lawlessness has been going on in the Southwest for 20 years now. Nothing will happen to the Supe.

Just remember: they have more rights than you. They can commit crimes with impunity, because they are Sacred Hispanic Victims of the Evil Anglos.

[Kimberly GG]

...”possession of schedule II drugs, possession of a weapon and violation of the open container law. Primitivo Rodriguez, 21, who also was living here, pleaded guilty to having no insurance and no license”....

My friend, a 76 y.o. male was just run off the freeway and into the cement median in Columbus on a Saturday morning by a drunk 20 something Hispanic male who spoke little English. The drunken S.O.B. stopped long enough to hear that the police were called and he took off. My friend, thankfully, was ok, but his brand new 2008 truck was totaled. He could have easily been another of the many killed every day by these ba$tards with no licenses and no insurance, here illegally.

[E. Cartman]

So, any comments by current GOP heart throb Sarah Palin on how to handle our invasion by Mexico? Or is Alaska too far away for her to have one?

[AmericanInTokyo]

The only thing I would like to see "vetted" when it comes to the FABULOUS Sarah Palin, is her clear cut position, one way or another, on the Kennedy-McCain Comprehensive Immigration Reform Bill of 2007 and whether she would have supported or opposed it as the tie-breaking vote in the United States Senate as Vice President. Amidst the euphoria, can we put the kool-aid down, fellow Americans, just long enough to ask this important question?

And today, whether she supports the revised 2008 GOP Platform on Illegal Immigration to it's fullest, or whether she has flexibility on the issue of "Amnesty" and "Bridge to Citizenship"?

Obama needs no more vetting in my book. He is hopeless.

Seriously, folks, when can we hear specifically on this issue out of the Vice Presidential Candidate's campaign camp and policy advisors? It is not being addressed and it was the hottest issue, in fact still is (A MAJOR NATIONAL SECURITY, COUNTRY-FIRST ISSUE) in the beginning of the GOP primaries. For what reason is it now off the table?

[NewRomeTacitus]

Wholeheartedly agree as I've been scoffed here a long time for suggesting it. Anyone arguing that implanting is against the aliens' nonexistent rights never seem to find the practices of our State Department-approved "allies" questionable.

The glaring difference between Mexico and Saudi Arabia is how each oligarchy manage comparable resources while Mexico's persists in flipping off its poorest while advising a move North.

[E. Cartman]

I used to dismiss conspiracy theorists as half-witted whack jobs, but that this issue is now never mentioned by either of the two major parties tells me that somewhere, at the top, there is indeed a plan to subvert the popular will and steal the country.

(How strange it is to live knowing that America's golden age has clearly passed. Lord, how I wish I'd taken more pictures.)